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Source: Cleasby/Vigfusson, page b0640, entry 8 View original page image as: [TIFF] [PNG] [View previous entry] [View next entry] |
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TREGA, irreg. verb, pres. tregr, pret. tregði, part. tregað, with suffixed neg. tregr-að, Gh. 2: part. tregnar, Hðm. 1. The mod. form is trega, að, which, though but rarely, occurs in vellums, e.g. tregaði, Bs. i. 301, in a vellum of the earlier part of the 14th century; [A.S. tregjan] :-- to grieve, used impers.; fjölð er þat er fíra tregr, many are the woes of man, Sdm. 30; tregr mik þat, Gkv. 3. 2; hví tregrað ykkr teiti at mæla, how can ye be glad? Gh. 2; (hana) tregði för friðils, Vkv. 27; þat mál er mik meirr tregi, 35; alla menn tregr fall grams, the king's death grieves all men, Hkr. i. (in a verse); tregnar iðir, dismal thoughts(?), Hðm. 1; marga menn tregaði mjök andlát Þorláks biskups, many were grieved over Th.'s death, Bs. i. 301; munaðar-ríki hefir margan tregað, brought many to grieve, Sól. 10. 2. in mod. usage, person., hann (nom.) tregaði, he wailed.
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